2025 Year-End Wrapped from The Ride Home Podcast
A year in tech news, curated daily by The Ride Home podcast
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📅 Episodes & Coverage
| Metric |
Count |
| Daily Show Episodes |
243 days |
| Friday Longreads Episodes |
49 Fridays |
| Total Episodes |
292 episodes |
| Year Coverage |
66.6% of 2025 |
🔗 Links Shared
| Category |
Links |
Average per Episode |
| Daily Show Links |
1,518 |
6.2 links/episode |
| Weekend Longreads |
106 |
2.2 links/episode |
| TOTAL |
1,624 |
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📰 Top 10 Sources - Daily Show Links
| Rank |
Source |
Links |
| 🥇 |
Bloomberg |
267 |
| 🥈 |
The Verge |
189 |
| 🥉 |
TechCrunch |
136 |
| 4 |
WSJ |
118 |
| 5 |
FT |
108 |
| 6 |
CNBC |
86 |
| 7 |
NYTimes |
63 |
| 8 |
The Information |
53 |
| 9 |
Reuters |
52 |
| 10 |
Wired |
37 |
📚 Top 10 Sources - Weekend Longreads
| Rank |
Source |
Articles |
| 🥇 |
NYTimes |
12 |
| 🥈 |
The Verge |
11 |
| 🥉 |
WSJ |
9 |
| 4 |
FT |
9 |
| 5 |
Bloomberg |
9 |
| 6 |
Wired |
8 |
| 7 |
The New Yorker |
3 |
| 8 |
Quanta Magazine |
3 |
| 9 |
Ars Technica |
3 |
| 10 |
MIT Technology Review |
2 |
🎯 Top Topics (AI Categorization)
Topics covered across 1,624 categorized links:
🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions
The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2025:
| Company |
Mentions |
Chart |
| 🏆 OpenAI |
391 |
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| 🍎 Apple |
294 |
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| 🔍 Google |
242 |
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| 👤 Meta |
212 |
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| 🎮 Nvidia |
142 |
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| 💼 Microsoft |
140 |
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| 📦 Amazon |
95 |
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| 🤖 Anthropic |
81 |
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| 🎬 Netflix |
37 |
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| 🚗 Tesla |
22 |
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💡 Fun Facts
- 🏆 Most Mentioned Company: OpenAI dominated with 391 mentions - AI clearly defined the tech narrative
- 📰 Top Daily News Source: Bloomberg with 267 links
- 📖 Top Longreads Source: NYTimes (12 articles)
- 📊 Links Per Episode: An average of 6.2 daily links kept listeners informed
- 📅 Consistency: 243 daily episodes means coverage on most weekdays throughout the year
- 🎯 Quality Curation: 1,624 total links from premium sources
📈 Key Takeaways
2025 was the year of AI dominance in tech news. OpenAI’s overwhelming lead in mentions reflects the industry’s obsession with artificial intelligence. The top companies all invested heavily in AI, making it the defining narrative of the year.
The Ride Home covered 66.6% of 2025, bringing tech news to thousands of listeners.
| Generated 01/14/26 |
Data source: docs/all-links-2025.md and docs/longreads-2025.md |